Sunday, November 24, 2013

Yuyutsu Sharma to read at Saturn Series at Revival, Union Square

Yuyutsu Sharma to read as Special Guest from his new book, Nine New York Poems: A Prelude (Nirala, 2014) to A Blizzard In My Bones: New York Poems.

with Erica Mapp

at Saturn Series at Revival

MONDAY... November 25 at 8:00 PM

Saturn Series Poetry
Reading & Open Mike 8 to 10PM every Monday!
at Revival 129 East 15 Street, Between Irving Place & 3rd
Ave. http://www.revivalbarnyc.com/
Please purchase a drink at the bar and come to the upstairs lounge.
Sign up for open mike 7:45, Starts at 8pm. $3 donation requested and
drink purchase.
Open Mike Surrounds Features.

Venue is updated on supolo.comREVIVAL !!!
129 East 15 Street Between 3rd Ave. & Irving Place. NEW LATER
START AT 8 PMWe meet every Monday night at 8:00 pm

Open Mike + 1 or 2 features - Sign up at 7:45
pm, Starts 8:00 & goes to 10:00 pm
Hosted by Su Polo - $3.00 donation plus drink purchase.
Please order a drink or two to support our event at this fine venue which
has invited us to meet at their lovely upstairs lounge (about five steps
up inside the front door)
This spacious room is decorated in delightful trompe d'oeil artistry. http://www.supolo.comhttp://www.supolo.com/Saturn_Series_Poetry

About Yuyutsu Ramdass Sharma..

.Recipient of fellowships and grants from The
Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation,
Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The
Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu RD
Sharma is a distinguished poet and translator.
He has published nine poetry collections including, Milarepa’s Bones, 33 New
Poems, (Nirala, New Delhi 2012), Nepal Trilogy, Photographs and Poetry on
Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang (www.Nepal-Trilogy.de,
Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe, 2010), a 900-page book with renowned German
photographer, Andreas Stimm, Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from
Europe and America, (2009, Indian reprint 2014) and Annapurna Poems, 2008),
Reprint, 2012, 14).
Yuyutsu has also brought out a translation of Irish poet Cathal O’ Searcaigh
poetry in Nepali in a bilingual collection entitled, Kathmandu: Poems, Selected
and New (2006) and a translation of Hebrew poet Ronny Someck’s poetry in Nepali
in a bilingual edition, Baghdad, February 1991 & Other Poems. He has
translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry in
English and launched a literary movement, Kathya Kayakalpa (Content
Metamorphosis) in Nepali poetry.
Two books of his poetry, Poemes de l’ Himalayas (L’Harmattan, Paris) and Poemas
de Los Himalayas (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) have appeared in French and
Spanish respectively.
Widely traveled author, he has read his works at several prestigious places
including The Poetry Café, London, The Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry,
Belfast, New York University, New York, The Kring, Amsterdam, P.E.N, Paris,
Knox College, Illinois, Whittier College, California, Baruch College, New York,
WB Yeats’ Center, Sligo, Gustav Stressemann Institute, Bonn, Rubin Museum, New
York, Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin, The Guardian Newsroom, London, Trois
Rivieres Poetry Festival, Quebec, Arnofini, Bristol, Borders, London, Slovenian
Book Days, Ljubljana, Royal Society of Dramatic Arts, London, Gunter Grass
House, Bremen, Nehru Center, London, March Hare, Newfoundland, Canada, South
Bank Center, London, Gannon University, Erie, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt,
Indian International Center, New Delhi, and Villa Serbelloni, Italy.
He has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen’s
University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg
University, Germany, University of California, Davis, Sacramento State
University, California and New York University, New York.
Yuyutsu’s own work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian,
Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch. He has also published his non-fiction, Annapurnas
& Stains of Blood: Life, Travel and Writing a Page of Snow and edits
Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing. He contributes literary columns to
Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times.
Yuyutsu was at the Poetry Parnassus Festival organized to celebrate London
Olympics 2012 where he represented Nepal and India. He will visit NYU later
this year as Special Visiting Poet and in 2014, Nicaragua as Guest Poet to
participate in International Poetry Festival of Granada.
Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world from his works and
conducts creative writing workshop at various universities in North America and
Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home.
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About Erica
Mapp...

Erica Mapp, originally from Trinidad, is a long-term New York resident
with poems in The Avocet, 360 degrees, (recently published by the Circle of
Poets in Trinidad), Commonweal magazine, MOBIUS, WORDS magazine, (published by
the School of Visual Arts in New York), Dinner With the Muse, an anthology
edited by Evie Ivy, COLUMBIA magazine and the former LAKE EFFECT. She is a
graduate of Cave Canem, a black writers’ group.

She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, from The Cooper Union School of
Art in New York City and a Master’s Degree in Art Education, from New York
University, School of Education. Her continuing education includes thirty
credits in poetry at the graduate level, from the Graduate English Department,
Queens College of the City of New York, (C.C.N.Y.), where she studied with the
acclaimed poet, Marie Ponsot for almost two years. She also studied poetry with
Marie Ponsot privately, for many years and with Grace Schulman at the 92nd
Street Y in New York City. In more recent years, she studied with Cave
Canem teachers, Jacqueline La Mon and Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer prize winning
author and poet.

She has taken part in many poetry readings both here and abroad and is seeking
publication for her two completed poetry manuscripts and an uncompleted book of
essays.

Space Cake Amsterdam & Other Poems from Europe and America

Annapurnas Poems

Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow

About Me

Recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu RD Sharma is a distinguished poet and translator.
He was born at Nakodar, Punjab, and moved to Nepal at an early age. He has published eight poetry collections including, Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu, 2012, Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow (Nirala Publications, New Delhi) and Nepal Trilogy, (Epsilonmedia, Germany) with German photographer Andreas Stimm and edited and translated several anthologies of Nepali poetry into English. Yuyutsu’s own work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch.
Yuyutsu lives in Kathmandu where he edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing. Half the year, he travels all over the world to read his works but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home.
More: www.yuyutsu.de